Monday, June 9, 2014

Parallel, Correspondence, Detachment

'A is parallel to B' entails both 1. 'There is a one-to-one correspondence between A and B', and 2. 'A and B never interact'.  Thus, the possession by a Mode of an Idea in Spinoza's Deity entails the possession of the Deity's "realized power of action" (Ethics, II, vii.)  Accordingly, a Mode's Knowledge of one such Idea, by either Reason or Intuition, is Practical, and its attainment is an occasion of empowerment.  So, the possibility of an 'intuition' of the Idea of a Mind detached from its Body, which dominates Part V of the Ethics, abstracts from #1, and, arguably, expresses a straying from what, to that point, is an unequivocal doctrine of Empowerment.

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